Best wine websites as of January 2008

The big guns

The traffic levels are very much below those of mainstream operations.
Yet a few sites dominate the pack. This is partly due to their early appearance on the Web (Wine Spectator, Wine lovers page). It is also partially because they have the weight of an offline publication behind them (Wine Spectator, the New York Times, Wine Advocate).

Diversity

In the last few years the web offer has immensely diversified. Everybody and their wine supplier now has a blog.
There now are many quality wine critics who comment on line. Some belong to the mainstream media, others not.
You can have your voice too and this is good for eveybody — except some big brands.
In this pack of numerous wine websites, however, some rise steadily by virtue of:

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Please consider my site for tracking. Total Wine Insider reviews wines, provides food matching recipes, articles on wine, etc. I only review wines that are widley available and easily aquired, most under $50.

Barry, Edward, Benjamin, Amy,
Thank you for your interest. Your sites are in the list of 200 sites that I will process for the next issue in a month. The data crunching will rank the sites and only the highest sites will appear.